TinyMoves
TinyMoves: About us
Our work starts with what the research actually says.
Every initiative TinyMoves builds starts in the same place: the peer-reviewed evidence on what actually works for children and families. Not awareness campaigns. Not information alone. The interventions that change behavior, build skills, and produce outcomes that last.
The through-line is a conviction the field has validated for decades — informed, confident parents and caregivers are the most powerful force in a child's life. Our job is to give them, and the programs that serve them, the tools to act on that power.
What we do
Translate research into practical tools parents and practitioners can actually use
How we work
Build national partnerships that take evidence-based content to scale through trusted relationships with the programs already working with children and families
Who we center
The families with the most at stake and the least support, in every initiative we design
Our founder
For more than 30 years, Nilofer Ahsan has worked at the intersection of research and practice in child welfare and family well-being — driven by a single conviction: that what the evidence tells us about children and families is far more powerful than what most families ever get to act on.
That conviction informed her work on the protective factors framework at the heart of Strengthening Families, a child abuse and neglect prevention approach now implemented across U.S. states and in five countries internationally. It led her to spend a decade helping to build the national network that brought it to life in communities across the country. It informed her work as the founding co-director of the FRIENDS National Resource Center, supporting every U.S. state in building community-based child abuse prevention strategies and her work supporting the Children’s Bureau (HHS), to connect U.S. federal policy to the practitioners, researchers, and family support programs doing the work on the ground.
What she kept seeing, across all of it, was the same gap: between what the research actually shows and what reaches the families who need it most. Not because the evidence isn’t there, but because turning evidence into action — at scale, through trusted relationships, in ways families can actually use — is hard. TinyMoves is her answer to that gap.